Resistor Manufacturers

As part of interfacebus, I've had a page covering Manufacturers of Resistors on the web for about ten years now. The page covering Resistors is well established after 10 years on the internet

The Resistor vendors page grows in size or reduces as links are added or removed. The other day four 'redundant' manufacturers were removed from the listing as they all pointed to the company that acquired them. Normally I'll leave a reference to a company that was purchased so people can still find the new company, but after awhile the old link gets removed.

From the "What's New blog" I see a new page dealing with Current Sense Resistors was added in April 2008. Adding a related page to resistors means removing all references to Current Sense Resistors from the main Resistor listing, so that they only show up on the new page, other wise both pages would appear to cover the same topic. Of course removing any information relating to current sense resistors reduces the amount of text from on the main resistor page.

April 2008 also saw a number of new pages that related to Resistors but did not require information being drained off the main resistor page. The new pages provided more incoming links [external pages linking to] the Resistor Manufacturers page. Incoming links should help a page gain visits by providing additional ways to find a page topic. How ever at the same time similar topics on the same web site could end up dividing the traffic between all related topics.

The point is I see a reduction in visits to the Resistor Manufacturers page over the last few years. Page views in 2006 seemed flat, but appeared to start decreasing from 2007 on. Page visits look stable from July 2008 on but are down 60 percent.